Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business.
Intimate ... Fundamentally kind and generous ... She is a funny, acerbic and empathetic writer. One of the most refreshing aspects of Care and Feeding is that she doesn’t belabor the point that she was a hot mess ... After sobriety, the book tilts toward Quit Lit. Woolever practices gratitude and prayer. While this arc retroactively casts the hitherto delightfully neutral account of her behavior into a redemption narrative, nothing can rob the book of its deep sense of empathy. She feeds. She cares. And we read and care too.
An account of a turbulent life ... She tells us more than we need to know about reckless all-nighters fueled by drugs and alcohol, about waking up on the floor, having sex with strangers and sleazy married men ... Has...humor and empathy.
